Shade-hanger



(No Model.)

F. E. STAHLHUT.

SHADE HANGER.

Patented Nov. 9,1897.

INVENTOH T 65% A TTOHNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND E. STAI-ILHUT, OF CARPENTER, ILLINOIS.

SHADE-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 593,441, dated November 9, 1897. Application filed April '7, 1397. Serial No. 631,140. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FERDINAND E. STAHL- HUT, of Carpenter, in the county of Madison and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Window-Curtain, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is a window-shade the roller of which may be moved at any point along the height of the window-frame, so that the shade .may admit the light from the top or the bottom or be adjusted to suit in other respects the person using it.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, while the claim defines the actual scope of the invention.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference inclicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of one of the parts for holding the rollers. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2, and

Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are detail views of elements to be hereinafter described.

The form of the invention illustrated consists in a transverse angle-bar 10, to each end of which a plate 11 is adjustably secured. The outer end of each plate 11 is provided with a vertically-elongated portion 12, bent inward and having bearings respectively carrying the trunnions of the rollers 13 and 14. The roller 14 is the usual spring shaderoller and, as shown in the drawings, has the shade 15 attached thereto. The roller 13 has reduced ends 16, to which the flexible strips 17 are respectively attached. The strips 17 are held by plates 18, respectively secured to the sides of the window-frame at the top thereof and having their lower edges bent forwardly and horizontally to form lips 19, which limit the upward movement of the rollers 13 14 and the parts attached thereto. Wound over the middle of the roller 13 is a cord 20, which passes upward over a guide formed by a pulley 21, secured by means of a bracket 22 to the top of the window-frame. The cord 20 passes from the pulley 21 to the pulley 23, similar to the pulley 21. From the pulley 23 the cord passes downward and is held by a suitable cleat 24. By drawing on the cord 20 the roller 13 is turned, which winds and unwinds the strips 17 and moves the bar 10, with its attachments, vertically along the windowframe. This makes it possible to place the curtain or shade in any desired position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination of a bar, a plate attached to each end of the bar, each plate having a vertically-elongated portion running transversely to the bar, two rollers mounted in said portion, the rollers being respectively above and below the bar and parallel therewith, one of the rollers being a curtain-roller, a flexible strip wound over the remaining roller and adapted for attachment to the window-frame, a cord wound over the said remaining roller oppositely to the saidfiexible strip, and a guide for the cord, the guide being located at the top of the window-frame.

FERDINAND E. STAHLI-IUT.

WVitnesses:

GERET DIETRICH CAssENs, HENRY SCHLEEHTE. 

